Improvement in hemp-brakes



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No.154,37 7 f l PatenredAug.25,1874.

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UNITED STAT-ES THOMAS J. DEAN'AND MONTGOMERY FORWARD, OF LAWRENCE, KANS. Y

PATENT CDFFICE..4

IMPROVEMENT IN HEMP-BRAKES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,377, dated August 25, 1874; application filed June 13, 1874.

, which the flax is` fedon a table, C, by `any suitable means. D is a stationary beater, onto which the crushed dax is delivered as it comes from the rollers. beaters, and F the endless carriers. This carrier runs from under the stationary beater under the revolving beaters, and thus continually presents the flax hanging over the-stationary beater'to the revolving beaters, so that they have a more efcient actin in the way of stripping the broken stalk from the ber than they could have otherwise. The standards or hous- E represents the revolving ings G and H for the crushing-rollers and the revolving beaters are pivoted to the bed-frame at I J, and they are connected together by adjustable bars L and braced by bars M, so that the revolving beaters and the stationary beaters can be adjusted relatively to each other, as

required. The-lower crushing-roller is mounted on springs P, to allow it to rise and fall accordingto the quantity of ax between the rollers. Having thus described our invention, we

claim as new and desire to secure -by Letters Patent- The combination, with beaters D E, of standards GH, pivoted to bed-frame I and connected by adjustable bars L, as shown and described, to enable said beaters to be relatively adjusted.

THOMAS J. DEAN. g MONTGOMERY W. FORWARD.

Witnesses A. C. MY'roN, E. B. HARRIS. 

